This document provides a lesson plan on inferring for students. It includes the learning intention, which is to be able to infer meaning from text to help comprehend it. The success criteria are that students can communicate what inferring means and how it expands understanding. The lesson introduces key vocabulary, has students listen to an audio and make inferences about it, then predicts headlines for newspaper articles and discusses inferences. It reviews what inferring is and how it helps comprehension.

1. S
Inferring
PL 2014
Term 4

2. Inferring
Learning Intention
S To be able to infer meaning from
what was read/heard to help
comprehend text
Success Criteria
S I can communicate that
inferring means constructing
meaning beyond what is literally
stated
S I can communicate that
inferring expands
understanding by helping me
discover what is implied but not
explicitly stated by the author

3. Key Vocabulary
S inference/inferring
S making predictions
S using context
S visualising
S background knowledge

4. Hook

5. GKR
S Listen to the following audio
What do I
already know
about this
topic?
S Using the HWI worksheet, record everything you hear
and any wonderings you may have
S Once you have finished listening to the audio, have a
chat with the people in your group.
S Now, use what you heard, with what you already know
about these sounds, to infer what the audio is about
S Now let’s watch the story – check your predictions
What does
the title tell
me?
What do I
predict the
text will be
about?
What can
the pictures
tell me?
What
words do
I expect
to see?
What
images come
to mind?
What will I
do as I
read?

6. Minuscule: The good
education

7. What is inferring
Inferring means …
S constructing meaning beyond what is literally stated
S you use text clues and background knowledge to
read between the lines
S to expand understanding by discovering what is
implied but not explicitly stated by the author
S that readers think about and search the text, and
sometimes use personal knowledge to construct
meaning beyond what is literally stated

8. Activity
S On the following slides you will see some local
newspaper articles minus their headline.
S With your table group, use your inferring skills to predict
the original headline.
Remember: inferring is using text clues (in this case words
and pictures) and background knowledge to make a
prediction and construct meaning.

9. 1 Predict the headline
Shepparton News

10. 2 Predict the headline
Shepparton News

11. 3 Predict the headline
Shepparton News

12. 4 Predict the headline
Shepparton News

13. 5 Predict the headline
Shepparton News

14. Share time
S Choose a speaker for your group to share one of two of
your predicted headlines.

15. S
Inferring Headlines
The full articles i.e. the answers 
How close were your predictions to the original
headline?

16. Predict the headline
discussion
S How did your group go with predicting the
headlines?
S What text cues did you use?

17. Activity
S Read through The Butcher and his Wife. This may be
done on your own or with a partner. Answer the
questions.
S Tip: Read through the questions before you read the
story. If you do this, you will be aware of the information
you are looking for while you read.

18. Review
S Inferring is …
S Inferring helps me to
understand text better by …
S The learning actions I used
today were …